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News, Views, & the Muse from the world's most opinionated zip codeWed, 23 May 2018 16:02:48 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.302138/xkRHhttps://feedburner.google.comCambridge Tapped Outhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/T9BnTc-eZ78/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=87#respondThu, 20 Sep 2012 14:15:02 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=87The morning&#8217;s email reminds me that things are humming along, same as it ever was, in my old home town. Nothing like moving away (not to mention moving to what is likely the closest spiritually antipodal venue to Cambridge: Philadelphia; going from tight-ass village to cloacal flood plain) to get some needed perspective. Like being [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/T9BnTc-eZ78" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=870http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=87Goodbye Facebook Goodbyehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/0HI4GYu-1TI/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=84#respondSun, 22 Apr 2012 17:11:38 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=84I made a big move recently. Actually it was a series of moves, some large, some small, all adding up in the end to one mammoth relocation. I lived in the Boston area, more or less, for 48 years, and at one location, a condo, in Cambridge for over 26 years (the longest continuous single [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/0HI4GYu-1TI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=840http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=84I stand expanded upon…http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/F7BKDRT2YzE/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=78#respondFri, 30 Sep 2011 12:44:11 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=78I used to like to say, to friends (who were always far more indulgent of the, OK, sometimes obnoxious personae, as my friend Ezra Pound would call them, that I would adopt from to time), &#8220;God I hate to be right.&#8221; Well, the following doesn&#8217;t make me right, but it does substantiate (and give permission [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/F7BKDRT2YzE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=780http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=78Plus ça Papelbon… plus c’est la même Bucknerhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/L9FAckAnap8/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=73#respondThu, 29 Sep 2011 20:39:02 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=73No regrets here, as the news reaches me finally, mid-afternoon (because I&#8217;m now in another market—one with a team that clinched its division, has killer pitching, and an even better record than the Yankees&#8230; the pitcher business should tell you all, all by itself), and the NYTimes, which is my print news source (paper, the [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/L9FAckAnap8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=730http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=7302138 is movinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/CI8DBfUJldE/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=66#respondTue, 12 Jul 2011 11:28:59 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=66Well, actually, I am moving, not the zip code, the area it represents, or this blog (or website). It&#8217;s a change of base of operations, home for lack of a better word. Though I can&#8217;t think of any better word than home. And so, in a figurative way, this virtual &#8220;02138,&#8221; the one always in [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/CI8DBfUJldE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=660http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=66Reasons given to Organizing for America for unsubscribing to their newsletterhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/ObwJzcLvWOk/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=58#respondMon, 22 Mar 2010 12:33:00 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=58I need only preface what I said to the folks at “Organizing for America” [which is, as it says at the bottom of their emails, “a project of the Democratic National Committee”] with this. I very much supported Barack Obama for the candidacy, and then, as candidate, for the Presidency. I even sent him money. [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/ObwJzcLvWOk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=580http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=58Who cut the cheese?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/FAEZI91Qlys/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=53#respondTue, 08 Sep 2009 16:42:58 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=53...Yes, there's a smell emanating from West Cambridge, and it isn't goats. But more later, after I look into it.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/FAEZI91Qlys" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=530http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=53Starbucks still misses the boat for this landlubberhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/yJ5H5H00OvU/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=48#respondSun, 16 Aug 2009 17:21:07 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=48Somewhere along the line, sailors, probably it was British sailors first time around, were called “tars.” This is among other things that sailors have been called in their lives at sea and their reputations in ports from Massalia (which is what the Phoenicians called what we know as Marseille) to Guadeloupe preceded them. The reference, [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/yJ5H5H00OvU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=480http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=48Dinner last nighthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/UYO4-BHbaBk/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=42#respondThu, 06 Aug 2009 15:07:33 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=42Jody&#8217;s Lemon &#038; Rosemary Chicken with herbs and garlic Haricots verts with kalamata olives and garlic sautéed in EVOO Heirloom tomatoes with local mozzarella [Fiore di Nonni] 2006 Jean-Luc Colombo Viognier &#8220;La Violette&#8221;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/UYO4-BHbaBk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=420http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=42What is strangehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~3/79d-uEvcMYs/
http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=38#respondThu, 06 Aug 2009 13:44:16 +0000http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=38[written 2009 July 31 Co-posted on the Per Diem blog] What is strange about produce shopping in France were all the apples available throughout the summer. I don&#8217;t know where they were coming from, as I didn&#8217;t buy anyway. My cling fruit juices were flowing as is appropriate. The pears were only barely beginning to [&#8230;]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/02138/xkRH/~4/79d-uEvcMYs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>http://02138.com/02138blog/?feed=rss2&p=380http://02138.com/02138blog/?p=38